. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, human bones, chiefly legs and arm bones and skulls, in the ash licaps, mixed withthe bones of animals. The long bones were always broken lengthwise, as thoughto take out the marrow. The skulls were always broken. If they were notcannibals, I think the bones would have been buried and left unbroken. I havedug in several mounds since, aronnd tlic Pond Mills, and along the river bank, butI found no human bones. * Without doubt the pit mentionod Mr. Sonley was the place where the Indiancorn was dried and charred before beiu<;- Ijuried for future u
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, human bones, chiefly legs and arm bones and skulls, in the ash licaps, mixed withthe bones of animals. The long bones were always broken lengthwise, as thoughto take out the marrow. The skulls were always broken. If they were notcannibals, I think the bones would have been buried and left unbroken. I havedug in several mounds since, aronnd tlic Pond Mills, and along the river bank, butI found no human bones. * Without doubt the pit mentionod Mr. Sonley was the place where the Indiancorn was dried and charred before beiu<;- Ijuried for future use as a food supply for tlwtribe, and which was also placed in the burial mounds of the dead for sustenance on theirway to the happy hunting: grounds.—TVoolverton. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EEPORT. 51. Site of Indian Fort, where Snake Creek enters the Medway River, showing- remains of dam constructed by Indians to trap fish. 52 ()LO(tI(AL EEPOET.
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